Domestic

Crisis-hit state ports and logistics monopoly Transnet will get a bail-out, with the National Treasury confirming that it has issued the group with “a support package of R47 billion.

The Road Accident Fund says it has managed to clamp down on fraudulent claims of overR 2,6 billion over the last three financial years. This achievement is a result of the sterling work done by the fund's Forensic Investigation Department.

More than 87,000 NSFAS-funded university students are at risk of not being funded next year following projected budget cuts from the National Treasury. NSFAS told Parliament on Wednesday that this number could rise to 121,000 students by 2025.

The newly crowned Miss World South Africa is wearing a replacement crown after her original one broke during celebrations. Claudia Mashego, 24, a medical doctor from Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga, was crowned as the very first Miss World South Africa after the Miss South Africa Organisation lost its license.

A Grade 9 learner from Hoërskool Ben Voster in Tzaneen has been ousted on social media for his racist utterings by using the "k" word. The learner, whose identity cannot be revealed due to the fact that he is a minor, was trending on Wednesday morning with members of the EFF paying a visit to his school.

Eight suspects arrested for allegedly raping three female security officers and stealing government equipment valued at over R280 000.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has successfully convicted the first person said to be responsible for inciting the July 2021 riots in KwaZulu Natal. Mdumiseni Zuma, 36, was sentenced to an effective 12 years in prison by the Pietermaritzburg Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

The former Chief Financial Officer of one of the country's leading dairy companies Fair Cape, has been accused of defrauding the company of more than R23 million.

The national logistics crisis is South Africa's own 'inconvenient truth'. That's the view of the CEO of the South African Association of Freight Forwarders, Dr Juanita Maree.